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Rielle Hunter's memoir details Edwards affair, aftermath
June 17, 2012
When John Edwards faced the prospect of an indictment that could put
him behind bars, he calmly told his mistress he would probably wind up
in a low-security prison in Virginia more like a country club than a
jail. She quickly told him she and their daughter would move there to
be near him if that happened. 
Rielle Hunter details their phone call just days before his indictment
in her new memoir, purchased by The Associated Press ahead of its
release. 
"What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me," also
includes Rielle Hunter's mixed views on Edwards' parenting of their
daughter Quinn and descriptions of Elizabeth Edwards' outbursts. At
the end of the book, Hunter says she still has romantic feelings for
Edwards but doesn't know how their relationship will turn out. 
The book also provides a window into Edwards' psyche as federal
prosecutors began their case against him. Days before his indictment
Hunter asked: "So if you went to jail, what kind of jail would it be?
One of those country clubs?" 
"He said, `Yeah."' 
"`Where?"' she asked. 
"`Probably Virginia."' 
"So Quinn and I will move to Virginia. Virginia is a great state." 
The only low-security federal prison in Virginia is in Petersburg,
where former Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry once served time. 
On the day of the indictment, the two shared a surreal phone call as a
newspaper reporter banged on her door in Charlotte, while the man she
refers to as "Johnny" throughout the book called her cell phone to say
that he was also being pursued. 
"`I've got helicopters circling my house,' Johnny said." 
New York publishers had said they were not interested in Hunter's
book, citing her negative image, so it is instead being released
through a Dallas-based boutique publisher, BenBella Books, on June 26.
Federal prosecutors spent a year prosecuting Edwards, culminating in a
six-week trial that ended last month. Jurors acquitted Edwards on one
count of accepting illegal campaign contributions and deadlocked on
five other felony counts. The judge declared a mistrial. Federal
prosecutors then said in a court order earlier this month that they
wouldn't retry Edwards, and the charges against him were dropped. 
Neither Edwards nor Hunter testified. 
Prosecutors had accused Edwards, 59, of masterminding a scheme to use
about $1 million in secret payments from two wealthy political donors
to hide his pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008. 
The trial publicized intimate details about Edwards' affair with
Hunter as his wife, Elizabeth, was dying of cancer. Much of the book
describes their unfolding relationship and the lengths to which Hunter
went to sneak in and out of Edwards' hotel rooms, even after her
contract as a videographer ended. She also describes paparazzi chases
after news of their affair broke. 
Hunter writes that Edwards is a doting father when he's around their
daughter but that his obligations to his other children curtail their
time together. The book features several pictures of the father and
daughter together, smiling. Immediately after his trial, Edwards said
during a news conference  with his adult daughter, Cate, by his side
 that he loved Quinn "more than any of you can ever imagine." Quinn
is now 4 and lives with Hunter in Charlotte. 
"He is a great dad to her when he is with her," Hunter writes.
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    @mandrel: "On 6/18/2012 7:19 AM, <email_address> 
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TOO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS HERE YET......!!!  WHAT WAS THE ORDER OF 
COMMUNICATIONS BY THE PARTIES BY WHICH PAYMENTS WERE ARRANGED...???
THIS SMACKS OF NOTHING MORE. THAN TO SECURE ONES SILENCE, DURING A 
CRITICAL TIME..... ***BRIBERY*** ***DOUBLE STANDARD***
SEEMS THAT THE INVESTIGATORS THEMSELVES SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED!!!!"
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